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Quote of the Day

"Its hard to become a terrorist if your girlfriend won't let you."


-Lawrence Wright, explaining why separating boys from girls leads to extremism at a lecture in Oriental Hall this evening.

I'll link to the podcast of his speech as soon as the University posts it. I can safely say that he gave the most thought provoking speech I've heard in years.

The fact that a pulitzer prize winning author graduated from my program and held my job 35 years ago gives me hope.

Update: here's the link for the lecture. Also check out the Naomi Wallace lecture above it on political writing called "How not to abide". I fell asleep during her lecutre, but I had VERY interesting dreams.

Some pictures of the girls

I need to put it on the record that if my older daughter would spend less time taking all her clothes off, I would be able to put more pictures of her online.

Quote of the Day

Truer words were never spoken:

Because people are flesh and blood, not circuits and spreadsheets, and we need hope and inspiration every bit as much as we need 10-point programs.

Which unfortunately makes us go weak in the knees for saints and charlatans alike.

Maybe this not the way it should be, but it is the way it is, and as proud members of the Reality Based community we need to accommodate ourselves to the fact that human nature is a force every bit as real and formidable as gravity.

If you do not understand this, you will never understand politics.

Also you will never get laid.